Gate.



W. H. SOMMER.

GATE.

APPLICATION FILED 1AN.24.1914.

Pdeented Oct. '19, 1915.

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GATE.

APPLICATION FILED 11111.24. 1914.

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Patented 001.19, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 24,1914. Serial No. 814,199.

To all whom it may concern I Be it known thatI, WILLIAM H. SOMMER,

i. a citizen of the United States, residing at Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Gates, of which the follow ing is a specification.

This invention has reference to certain new and useful improvements in gates, and has for its object to provide an eflicient I means for securing'the opposite ends of the longitudinal wires to the opposite vertical bars of the gate frame, and also the attaching of the upper and lower ends of the vertlcal wires with the topandfbottom bars of said frame.

The invention has for afurther ob ect a gate, comprising top and end bars formed of an integral part and bent into shape and a bottom bar united to the ends of the end bars by a miter-joint; a wirebody compristnga plurality of longitudinal wires and vertical wires crossing said longitudinal wires, said wires being suitably joined where they cross, and theends of the longitudinal Wires, andalso said vertical wires, being se cured to the frame, preferably by being passed around the twisted with their own body portions.

frame members In the drawings :'F igure V1 is a View of my improved gate, showing the preferred;

attachment of the ends of the wires to the frame; Fig. 2 isa detailed View showing a modification of the wire attachment to the frame; Fig. 3 shows further modification of I the manner of securing the ends of the wires to the frame.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the figures.

The frame .of the gate comprises the top and two end bars, 1, 2 and3, and the bottom bar 4. The top and two end bars arebent into an inverted U from an integral tubular bar, and the'e'n'ds of said end bars are united to said bottom bar by miter-joints 5. v

The longitudinal wires are designated 6 Copies of this patent may be obtained for and thevertical wires 7. These wires where Patented 0013.19, 1915.

they cross are preferably joined bya staple lock or tie 8, but may bec'onnected in other Suitable manner. V

As shown in Fig. 1, the-ends. of the longi- .tudlnal and vertical wires are each joined or attached tothe frame in a similar manner,

so that the description of one will suflice for all. An end of a wir'efis passed around a bar of the frame and preferably twisted with the body ofthe wire. at 9. Carrying the ends of the wires around the bars stretches the wires, and whenthe, ends are twisted with the body of the wire, they are held taut and such twists being adjacent the In Fig; 2, the ends of the wires 6 and 7 are-passed around :bars of the frame and Such ends wrapped or coiled,as at 10, about the bodyof the'Wire.

bars,'-adds strength to the fillerof the frame.

In Fig. 3 the ends ofthe 'wires 6 and 7 after being passedgaroundl the bars ofthe' frame are intertwisted'with the bodyof'the wires as at 11, by a rightand left, oriileft and right intertwist. Y

WVhat I claim is tom and end bars, and a rigid wire body for 'Said frame, each wire of. said body-having 1. Ina gate, a frame comprising top, bot;

flts ends paissed around bars of'the frame twists; v I

2. In a gate, a frame comprising integral top and-end bars formed into an inverted U a bottom bar connected to the ends of said end bars "by a miter-joint, and a rigid wire body forsaid frame, said wire body includ-' ing longitudinal and vertical wires, the ends of each of said wires being passed around a bar of the frame and joined to itself by .being twisted therewith. WILLIAM S OMMER, Witnesses: v

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and joined to itself by right and left inter- 

